Second round of Fukushima wastewater release begins

Japan began releasing a second batch of wastewater from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, its operator said Thursday.

The water discharge began at 10:18 a.m. (0118 GMT), a TEPCO spokesman told AFP.

It followed the first discharge on 24 August, when Japan released some of the 1.34 million tons of wastewater that has built up since a tsunami crippled the facility in 2011.